Have you ever thought: What’s the minimum I need in order to build a site? I’ve thought about it quite a bit. So much so, I like to test my theories out in personal projects; in this case, my own portfolio site. However, I might have taken it a bit too far...

A while ago I created a screencast series called ‘Baking Bread.li’, this was in preparation for a course for Tuts+ called ‘Building Websites with BaseKit’. In order to make the course I needed to get some equipment together.

I love GitHub Pages. So much so that I’ve created several websites using it. This site runs on it, and a few others. What I don’t love is setting up domain records. It’s up there with setting up email accounts and doing the dishes.

I’ve had to take a break from listening to podcasts as all I’ve been doing in playing catch up with every single episode of them, rather than listening to episodes I actually want to hear.

In this tutorial I’m going to demonstrate a basic implementation of some SVG icons, how to provide a fallback, and how to turn them into an SVG sprite.